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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The organizational form of a literary work.






2. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.






3. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






4. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






5. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






6. What a story or play is about.






7. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






8. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






9. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






10. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






11. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






12. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






13. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






14. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.






15. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






16. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.






17. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






18. A character struggles against some outside force.






19. The main character of a literary work.






20. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.






21. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






22. A customary feature of a literary work - such as the use of a chorus in Greek tragedy - the inclusion of an explicit moral in a fable - or the use of a particular rhyme scheme in a villanelle.






23. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






24. The selection of words in a literary work.






25. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






26. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






27. The feeling or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.






28. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






29. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






30. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






31. A four line stanza in a poem.






32. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.






33. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.






34. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






35. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






36. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






37. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.






38. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






39. The dictionary meaning of a word.






40. A strong pause within a line.






41. The person who 'tells' the story.






42. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






43. A short saying with a moral.






44. The grammatical order of words in a sentence or line of verse or dialogue.






45. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






46. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object animal - or idea is given human qualities or characteristics.






47. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






48. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






49. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






50. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.







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